This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

We assume that this mode of phosphate release is the dominant mechanism in coastal sediments with a high input of phosphorus bound in organic matter and dense populations of sulfur bacteria ...

1999) have been shown to result in the deterioration of the settling properties and of the BNR performances caused by bacterial ... within granules, it has been found that ammonium-oxidizing organisms ...

Accordingly, bacterial richness (Chao 1 estimator ... The samples from S33 exhibited more OTUs than those from S31, and the surface sediment (0–4 cm) samples presented the lowest number of OTUs at ...

The pores could also be outer-membrane protein complexes located on the bacteria surface, but the measured pore diameter of 34.7 nm ± 11.8 nm is significantly larger than previous reports of ...

The pores could also be outer-membrane protein complexes located on the bacteria surface, but the measured pore diameter of 34.7 nm ± 11.8 nm (1 nm = 1 x 10-9 m) is significantly larger than ...

Research Center for Energy and Environmental Materials (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan ...

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs ... To generate LPS-free OMVs displaying Neo-2/15 on the surface (CC-Neo215), the plasmid was transformed into the BL21(DE3) ClearColi strain via the heat shock ...

In modern life science research, fluorescence microscopy is a popular and powerful imaging technique. Yet, despite its overall success, the need for fluorescent labels limit its potential applications ...